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M 2.8ml

6 km W of Mulhall, Oklahoma

· 4.6 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Logan County 17 kmNoble County 42 kmKingfisher County 42 kmGarfield County 45 kmPayne County 46 kmOklahoma County 57 kmLincoln County 67 kmCanadian County 73 kmPawnee County 76 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
4.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Logan County, 17 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3796 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 36.0614, -97.4845. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Logan County, OK 17 km (10 mi) N of here earthquakes near Logan County
Noble County, OK 42 km (26 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Noble County
Kingfisher County, OK 42 km (26 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kingfisher County
Garfield County, OK 45 km (28 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Payne County, OK 46 km (28 mi) W of here earthquakes near Payne County
Oklahoma County, OK 57 km (35 mi) N of here earthquakes near Oklahoma County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

56 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.8 4 km SW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  2. 3.2 Oklahoma
  3. 2.7 4 km SW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  4. 3.0 4 km SW of Fallis, Oklahoma
  5. 2.5 13 km SE of Billings, Oklahoma
  6. 2.8 5 km SE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
  7. 2.7 0 km NE of Breckinridge, Oklahoma
  8. 2.8 10 km WSW of Mulhall, Oklahoma
  9. 3.6 4 km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma
  10. 4.2 4 km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma
  11. 2.9 0 km NE of Breckinridge, Oklahoma
  12. 2.9 13 km SSE of Billings, Oklahoma
  13. 2.5 11 km E of Perry, Oklahoma
  14. 2.5 Oklahoma
  15. 2.5 3 km WNW of Lucien, Oklahoma

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.2 on 2016-01-01 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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